Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!unirot!ron From: ron@unirot.UUCP Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Copyright status of the netnews software Message-ID: <332@unirot.UUCP> Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 15:01:55 EST Article-I.D.: unirot.332 Posted: Sun Feb 8 15:01:55 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 04:09:19 EST References: <962@osiris.UUCP> <1717@hoptoad.uucp> <43093@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <1765@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Public Access Unix, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 7 John, you left out one thing here. Rick Adams copyright protects his changes to the public domain code. It is not OK to just rip a copyright notice off code even if it is based on public domain source source. And if you know precisely what the public domain rendition of the code is they you would be using that rather than copying the modified rendition. -Ron